New technologies, such as the Internet of Things and mobile devices, are placing major demands on wide area networks. Traditional WANs are having a tough time keeping up, but software-defined WAN solutions are emerging to address these challenges.The advantages that SD-WAN solutions bring are driving increased adoption. An April 2019 study by IDC found that…
Many organizations migrate resources to the public cloud in part because they want to reduce their IT management burdens. By minimizing the footprint of their on-premises infrastructure, they hope to direct their internal IT staff away from routine maintenance and support tasks and toward more strategic projects that create value for the business. So, it…
A number of us at CDW had the opportunity to attend Nutanix .NEXT 2019 in Anaheim last week. The attendance was great, the announcements were exciting, and we think it was one of the best Nutanix events yet. One of the best parts of the show was seeing our CDW engineering team members having their…
Once upon a time — and not all that long ago — the data center was the only place for IT workloads to run. If an organization needed to process large amounts of data, that’s where it happened. But the emergence of the cloud, coupled with the rise of digital transformation and the Internet of…
It’s a common story in IT: An enterprise is running servers that are 5, 6 or 7 years old (sometimes including equipment that is no longer even supported by the vendor), simply because there’s no room in the existing IT budget to fund an upgrade. But when organizations plan carefully, they often find that they’re…
Too often, I see organizations rush headlong into public cloud investments, only to pull resources back on-premises in a matter of months. This is a move so commonplace that we at CDW have a term for it: the Cloud U-turn. The problem, of course, isn’t with the public cloud itself. Countless companies are successfully running…
